Welcome to this year's Official Smogon Tournament! The OST is one of Smogon's longest standing traditions in tournaments and has crowned many great Pokémon players as its champions across five generations. Over the next few months, thousands* (!) of players will compete to the best of their ability as they attempt to join the exclusive ranks of the OST trophy holders. Only one of those players will succeed in their journey and earn the recognition that comes with their victory, along with the iconic OST trophy.
The tournament will have a best of three format. This means that players will play until one of them wins two games. Players are allowed to switch teams in between games, or use the same team throughout the set; it is completely up to the player. If players only partially complete a series before the deadline, it will be considered an uncompleted match and action will be taken accordingly (either an activity win or a coin flip).
Just like last year, there will be a cash prize for this tournament! The winner of this year's Official Smogon Tournament will receive 200 USD!
If there are any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to me or a tournament director!
OST Specific Rules
- This is a standard SV OU tournament.
- The tournament will be single elimination.
- Players will play a best of three series of games each round
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!. If you can't agree on which server to play on, the Smogtours server is the default option.
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- Sleep Clause: A player cannot put two or more different opposing Pokémon to sleep using attacks that induce sleep to opposing Pokémon.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two of the same Pokémon on their team. For example, a player cannot have two Koffing on his or her team.
- Evasion Clause: A player cannot use the moves Double Team or Minimize in their Pokémon's movesets.
- OHKO Clause: Players cannot use Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, or Fissure in any of their Pokémon's movesets.
- Team Preview: Players must turn on the Team Preview feature where players can view the opposing team's Pokémon and choose their lead Pokémon.
- Timer Clause: If a player exhausts the timer, he/she loses.
- Endless Battle Clause: Any moveset on any Pokémon that is capable of intentionally causing an endless battle is banned from competitive play. Check this thread for more information.
- Baton Pass Clause: The move Baton Pass is banned outright.
- Uber Clause: Players may not use any items, moves, abilities, or Pokemon that appear on Smogon's OU Ban List. If the tiers change or new items, abilities, moves, or Pokemon become available in the middle of a round, the changes will take effect in the following round. There will be an announcement in the relevant round if this occurs.
About Activity Decisions
Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: In the event that there is an uncompleted match at the deadline, it will be coin flipped unless one or both of the players involved in the match specifically request an activity win and explain sufficiently why they deserve to win over their opponent. Attempting to schedule a battle is required in order to receive the win by activity. To make it clear that you are requesting an activity win when you post, you must open your post with "Activity Win Request" in bold.
For example, if you believe your opponent is making an unfair request and that they don't deserve the activity win over you, you can either make your own request or quote their post and explain why they don't deserve it. You should try to make your activity win request posts at least 24 hours before the deadline to give your opponent a reasonable opportunity to contest it with their own activity win request.
In case of disconnections, if you played in the SmogTours server, call a Tournament Director as soon as possible and we'll see about the possibility of having a rematch.
Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: In the event that there is an uncompleted match at the deadline, it will be coin flipped unless one or both of the players involved in the match specifically request an activity win and explain sufficiently why they deserve to win over their opponent. Attempting to schedule a battle is required in order to receive the win by activity. To make it clear that you are requesting an activity win when you post, you must open your post with "Activity Win Request" in bold.
For example, if you believe your opponent is making an unfair request and that they don't deserve the activity win over you, you can either make your own request or quote their post and explain why they don't deserve it. You should try to make your activity win request posts at least 24 hours before the deadline to give your opponent a reasonable opportunity to contest it with their own activity win request.
In case of disconnections, if you played in the SmogTours server, call a Tournament Director as soon as possible and we'll see about the possibility of having a rematch.
General Tournament Rules
Substitutions
Players may sign up as a substitute if they didn't join in time. If you are eliminated from the tournament (i.e. you lose your games, are substituted out, or drop out), you may not sign up as a substitute. I will endeavor to substitute players in whenever a player drops out, and one week before the round 1 deadline, I will look through all players and activity win requests and replace any inactive players with substitutes. Given the size of the bracket this year, there might be two substitution waves. There is a good chance that you will get to play if you sign up as a substitute. Substitutes will only be allowed into the tournament during round 1. Substitutes will be implemented on a mostly first come, first serve basis, but if you are inactive after you sign up as a substitute then you're at risk of not being substituted into the tournament.
To sign up as a substitute, please use the substitute signup thread.
Please read this guide if you're unsure how to schedule with your opponent! Alternatively, watch this video made by teal6:
Now then, without further ado..
Round 2-A
TiBooom vs airfare
Hematemesis vs Cosmo'Star
MudkipNerd vs MANNAT
PolloAriosto vs ZKk
mxwingspan vs ADF Test
ziloXX vs crying
Skypenguin vs cicepece11
Toxigen vs QuinnXD
Twixtry vs bruno
Huncho Clef vs Lazuli
Mike Cometa vs Kazt_5
JohnYiu vs Wubben
c0mp vs EL_ABUSADOL_SANTOS
Herriz0 vs ausma
rozepanter007 vs EVIL z0mOG
Abyssal Ruins vs Asher647
GuardArc vs PikachuZappyZap
Saketh22 vs Deranged_Lime
Dragonillis vs queso
spspsp11 vs Cureja
Zokuru vs Poke_Ved
StepC vs samohi0
Constant_Entity vs Shiiftry
Tace vs MonkeyKing-M
Punny vs Puvero
Ojama vs QueenOfTheFreaks
Oceanides vs Foufakirby
omarsglock vs CyberOdin✝
Keahi vs Drookez
the pharoah vs Mikestar21
Chaitanya vs Tommby
Baloor vs bbeeaa
Adri vs Éric
Kekwashi vs Yasu-Chan
blunder vs ukaaa
Carkoala vs sonoclover
OJslice vs Aera
Grabby vs Euglena
Just ceruledge vs Floss
TopRalphX vs NeoNaruto
kaibwah vs toytean
Sylvi vs BaddyGames
Farfromani vs Leavers
subaru vs Raulmorenazo00
Potatochan vs Quantum Tesseract
Waci vs Lady Juniper Of Jungby
Toxzn vs Limabean4512
sensei axew vs Giannis Antetokommo-o
agenS vs pulsar512b
sasha vs CheerChoco
CookiesNcream vs Bigbangboi212x(2)
twash vs previouslyunnamed
Art and Em vs Shoot
Egor vs Cam
budgie89797 vs AyanCR7
Sharow vs Noobjett6
Moutemoute vs Skarph
Webwyane vs Dan Dan
LingCe vs Chrome_
Unamed vs vampere
2020 idm boomer vs Auranati
Chinchiiiiiii vs I love Bagon
njnp vs Ainaloser
Excal vs LixK99
Komodo_Drogo vs Beraldinho
LuisMonro vs 30GXENOOB
Nazip vs Specs Absol
DerpyBoi vs edfrick
termi vs The Mefesto
KryogenicCygnus vs elodin
Mom Lover vs L lawliet
realaccountami? vs Lady Salamence
JuanSG vs Roller K
zxgzxg vs WoopToons
Iceman8911 vs hariyana grande
reddeadray vs wughead
Voyager02 vs DAHLI
Teamsweepersaswat vs LORD SAGIS
dunoks vs halaman95
The Exploreher vs mfhoundoom
TGA vs Zeuspoof
Kev vs eu
Jisoo vs martinvtran
Dicemand vs <NOVA>
tlenit vs haxlolo
jay vs TheBigSteve
zarathustrasama vs bigguac
Leo vs JohanSalapo
CINDERBLOCK vs pdt
CarnelianM vs CBT Cheap_Sheep
DarkNeonGames vs JianZen
Srita Kaguya vs obii
Cra3k vs Venuesaur
MTV BRATVA vs Cielau
Jefozz vs Zerwixo
im very mid vs RufflesPro
abriel vs KeldeoCrowned
Fc vs Hashg Skynyrd
HikozaruGG vs Ciro napoli
mudd_skip vs Feli_joseph
OceanTaco vs GoldenBoot04
Shenkai vs Duck Chris
luisin vs Doppelsoldner
ItsTulio1 vs utofa
blockayethe1st vs HarryPS
StarChef vs Croo
ChestoResto vs charlieX7
TectonicDestroyer vs AL
JustFranco vs Kebab mlml
Holograms vs ItsMiniflaX
TheFallenShooriken vs Xmas
Regnite vs Joeshh
richthenoob vs bhkg
Minnair vs Lusa
Uwsc vs Santu
hater vs X_alexanderX_
Sankoer23 vs Josepharas1
snaga vs Wing Fighter
Autumnchi vs TheBaruTheBaru
Mr.Yessir vs Xerneas2
Martinique Jason vs Daruma
Jnho vs KetchupFan2001
Zsynaps vs King Billu
Delta4 vs Zephyri
lele3 vs Leru
jacob vs Dark Shion
d0nut vs quicktoanchor
Mako vs RocheRouche
(If your name isn't in this list check the OST Round 2-B, 2-C, and 2-D threads for it!)
Deadline is Sunday, February 12th at 11:59 PM EST (GMT-5).
Extension Deadline: Wednesday February 8th, 11:59 PM EST (GMT-5)
REPLAYS MUST BE POSTED FOR YOUR WIN TO COUNT!! SEE THE ANNOUNCEMENTS THREAD FOR INFO
Extension Deadline: Wednesday February 8th, 11:59 PM EST (GMT-5)
REPLAYS MUST BE POSTED FOR YOUR WIN TO COUNT!! SEE THE ANNOUNCEMENTS THREAD FOR INFO
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